aditya shukla wrote:
I am trying to create a temporary file.
import tempfile
temp = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix='_suffix',
prefix='prefix_',
dir='/tmp',
)
try:
print 'temp:', temp
print 'temp.name <http://temp.name>:', temp.name
finally:
temp.close()
But when i do ls /tmp or ls -a /tmp i cannot find the file or if i try to os.remove(temp.name <http://temp.name>) it shows a message that the file is not found.But print temp and print temp.name <http://temp.name> show
temp: <open file '<fdopen>', mode 'w+b' at 0xb7e84800>
temp.name <http://temp.name>:
/home/swamp2/cacsgrad/axs9347/Desktop/prefix_zOfoX__suffix
Please help me to fix it.
NamedTemporaryFile() can have an extra argument 'delete', which, if True
(the default), deletes the file after it's closed.
Try:
temp = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix='_suffix',
prefix='prefix_', dir='/tmp', delete=False)
instead.
It's in the documentation:
http://docs.python.org/library/tempfile.html
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